Western Culture Quotes - Page 3

• You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

  Joseph Jarman

  Unique, Community, Faces

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• In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.

  Kevin Sessums

  Spiritual, Believe, Dark

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of Western culture is in the centuries when Christianism was dominant and was present in almost all works of art - not only liturgical works, but also literature and music. Yes, it's important to have that in our present. It doesn't mean that people have to adhere to a dogma or practice a religion, but it's part of our heritage, and you have to at least try to understand it. Otherwise you can't be a modern person.

  Eugene Green

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Book, Writing, Night

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• Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a different culture. This doesn't mean that it's an inferior culture, but it is a culture that has yet to connect with the positive sides of our modern Western culture: religious freedom, human rights and equal rights for women.

  Walter Kasper

  Religious, Mean, Rights

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The majority of Western culture came out of Europe, which is not comparable to America. It came out of nation states based on geographical and ethnic foundations. America is based on principles, a very different kind of country.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Country, Europe, America

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Culture, Wagner, Western

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• Western culture is what keeps women and gays safe.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Gay, Safe, Culture

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Weakness, Peculiar

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

  Leonard Cohen

  Violent, Has Beens, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Facts, Dimensions, Realizing

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• Western culture is what is at risk from immigration from the Middle East.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Risk, Culture, Middle East

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing is better than a great symbol of China, the Tao, the wheel of yin and yang that represents life. The universe is the harmony of opposites, because there is no water without fire, there is no female with no male, there is no night without day, there is no sun without the moon ... there is no good without evil! This symbol is perfect since the white and black are embracing each other; inside the white there is a black point and inside the black there is a white point.

  Tiziano Terzani

  Moon, Night, Opposites

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• ...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.

  Dave Hickey

  Fun, Powerful, Issues

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• Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

  Ibn Warraq

  Minorities, Way, Importance

  Source: ibnwarraq.com

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• The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Teacher, Science, Dwelling Place

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• It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Stupidity, Dying, Culture

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• 47 Ronin is a very special movie for me. Not only a Samurai thing. Not only a Hollywood fantasy. It has a very special mixture between Japanese traditional culture and Western culture for the costume, set, story. Everything. I believe it will be a very special film that no one has ever seen.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Believe, Special, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Art, Cities, Intellectual

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Suffering, Culture, World

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.310, Penguin Books India

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• We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is actually not. Western culture, now globally dominant, has systematically trained us to think and act as though we are separate individuals, often in competition with each other for scarce resources of one sort or another, primarily money, which has be-come the perceived means to all we want and need in life.

  Elisabet Sahtouris

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Males, Cinema

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.

  Karl-Henrik Robert

  Inspiring, Essentials, Economic

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• The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand that this is not a favor or a concession, but simply their natural right to be recognized as belonging to a culture that is distinct from the Western culture, a culture in which they have to live their own faith.

  Samuel Ruiz

  Understanding, Identity, Favors

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• Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.

  Susan Cheever

  Sex, Vegas, Addiction

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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